North Carolina State University Athletics
Women's Hoops Welcomes NC A&T on Saturday
12/17/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 17, 2004
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After making picking up a landslide victory at South Carolina on Thursday, NC State improved its record to 7-1 heading into its fifth home game of the season this Saturday, Dec. 18. The Wolfpack will host North Carolina A&T, a team that is struggling with a 1-6 record. NC State has won its last four games at home this season and has its best record since 2000-01. The Pack owns the all-time series as the teams meet for the seventh time, at 6-0. In addition, NC State is 3-0 at home versus the Aggies. The game is set for 2 p.m., in Reynolds Coliseum and can be heard on WKNC 88.1 FM or 1230 AM with Patrick Kinas.
NC State won its seventh win of the season, sixth straight overall and first on the road when it defeated South Carolina 75-48 on Thursday. NC State will have the opportunity to stretch its road-winning streak to two when it travels to George Washington on Tuesday. Entering tomorrow's game, the Wolfpack has three players averaging double figures, including a team-high 13.0 ppg from junior Tiffany Stansbury. The Philadelphia, Pa. native recorded her fourth double-double of the season with a career-high 22 points and 10 rebounds against the Gamecocks. She also leads the team in rebounds with an average of 8.6 per game. The center has a team-high 24 steals, which puts her among the elite in the Atlantic Coast Conference with an average of 3.00 steals per game. Junior Billie McDowell leads the team with a 38.3 three-point percentage and is averaging 10.5 ppg. Sophomore Marquetta Dickens has started three games this season and is averaging 10.1 ppg and is second in rebounding with 5.8 rpg. As a team, NC State continues to lead the ACC in turnover margin (+9.30) and scoring defense (49.6 ppg) and is second in steals with 12.88 spg.
North Carolina A&T is struggling to find a win, having lost its last four contests and only managed one victory this season. The Aggies are 1-6 this season and are coming off a 79-59 loss at UNC Ashville on Thursday. In that loss, the Aggies leading scorer, junior Shareka Glover was held to just six points. The guard was averaging 10.2 heading into the game. Also, the team's leading rebounder, senior forward Tia Richardson was averaging 6.5 rpg, but managed to grab just two in the loss. Instead, sophomore forward Malea Gibson was the Aggies' leading scorer as she pulled in a double double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Junior forward Yanumbe Sherman added 13 points. As a team, A&T is losing the rebounding battle with a margin of negative 11.6 rpg. The Aggies are bringing down an average of 36.3 rpg, while giving up 47.9 rpg. The turnover tale is also significant as A&T commits 25.0 turnovers a contest, compared to 21.6 by its competitors.
North Carolina A&T head coach Saudia Roundtree has been at the helm of the Aggies for the last three seasons and in that time has accumulated a record of 15-49. Prior to her arrival at A&T she spent a season as an assistant and time as an interim head coach at Morris Brown. Yow is 660-301 (.687) in 34 years of coaching and owns a 603-282 (.681) record in her 30 years at NC State. Yow is 6-0 all-time versus the Aggies.
NC State is 6-0 all-time versus the Aggies and is 3-0 at home. In the six previous meetings, NC State has scored an average of 89.0 points against the Aggies, while giving up 66.2 ppg. The closest A&T has come to a victory was back on Dec. 8, 1993 when A&T took NC State to overtime and lost by one point, 92-91. All but the first meeting on Nov. 23, 1979, has NC State played the Aggies in the month of December. The fewest points ever allowed by NC State was 48, which was in the 84-48 victory in the most recent meeting on Dec. 19, 1995. The most NC State ever scored was 106 in the first meeting in 1979 and the fewest was 82 on Dec. 7, 1994.
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